Tuesday, February 23rd was the annual "Off to Clinicals" celebration. The Seniors will be done with their didactic work on Thursday and report to the assigned clinical site on Monday, March 7th. The pins represent available clinical sites.

The cake with each of the Seniors names on it plus the two cars that the students could win if their names were drawn.

Mrs. Karen Reiner shared some thoughts to start the program and had opening prayer.

Both the Seniors and underclassmen were in attendance.

Each Senior gave a short speech in which they were to tell the city or country they were from, what affiliated school they were from, which clinical site they were assigned to, and some advice for the underclassmen on how to be successful in the program. These are a few of the students who gave their talk.

And the two lucky winners of the cars posing for their picture.

Then everyone enjoyed the cake and punch.

Looks good!!

Dr. Kilsby serving the cake.

Department celebrates re-accreditation

In the Spring of 2010 the CLS Department underwent a re-accreditation and after the onsite review team gave the program a perfect score the program received the maximum of 7 years of Continuing Accreditation. That means the next accreditation review won't be until 2017.

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To celebrate, the Department went to the Tippecanoe Place Restaurant in South Bend for a Sunday brunch. The site is the old mansion of the Studebaker family.

Faculty and Spouses who were able to make it, enjoyed the great food and fellowship. We missed having Tim and Monica and their spouses join us as they were unable to attend.

CLS hallway party

The CLS Faculty and Staff provided refreshments for the students on the last day of classes for Fall semester.

Perhaps the reason Mr. Show (CLS Chemistry Instructor) is standing back as he
mixes the punch is because he is pouring water into an acid (fruit juice).

Lots of goodies were available.

It just so happened that the food table was setup under this sign relating to cholesterol!!

End of Semester crunch

Thursday, December 2nd may be the last day of classes but the CLS students are busy in the lab.

There's those pesky microbes that have to be identified for Mrs. Reiner's microbiology class.



And the WBC Differentials to finish for Mr. Newkirk's Hematology class.

But the Faculty also have lots of work to finish before the Fall break begins. Preparing final exams, grading lab exercises and exams. Here Karen Reiner is hard at these tasks.

Following are some pictures of a few of the CLS students in the lab.

Have a great holiday break and we will see you in January.